Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I'm using a web server (Karrigell) which is based on the asyncore module. > I'd like to be able to checkpoint some data (e.g. pickled dictionaries) to > disk > from time to time. > For that I would need to setup a timer which calls a Python object/function > when > its time interval has expired. While this function is running I need access > to > the variables of the server.
the usual way to do that with asyncore is to add an outer control loop that calls asyncore.loop with a count argument (or poll directly), and checks a "task queue" at regular intervals. but in your case, it's probably easier to set up a cron job that does a "wget" against your server with a "secret" URL, and have the server do the checkpointing whenever that URL is fetched. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
